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MoveIt I am quite a fan of pasta with cubes of roasted butternut squash and goats cheese. Roasted cherry toms go well with it too.

I can say goats cheese because Franny isn;t listening.

ooh ooh ooh me me me for a meetyuppyvegythingy!!!!!!

am drinking port and counting the hours til they are all back at woork/school/nursery [bad mummy emoticon]

went to allotment today for first time in weeks - it looks no better or worse than anyone else for a change. i have missed it, was nice to have 20 mins communing with nature, as t were.

which is not a euphemism for peeing in the bushes. not today anyway

{{{{{{}}}}}}} port cented hugs all round and also karma perfume scented too, since nobody bought me any perfume for xmas i had to buy myself some today in lush

goat cheese goat cheese goat cheese

i LOVE it. dh made me the best ever got cheese salad sandwich when i came home after having dd

oh gosh and happy new year as well

lol @ Mayor. I am quite partial to a good bit of goats cheese too. Sorry TooT.

lol @ Mayor.
I went to alloty t'other day. It looked incredibly neat and tidy (because it was totally covered in virgin snow...!)
We have had more snow today. But not enough to cancel school or work tomorrow. Wah!

Can you hear the screams yet as I try and persaude two feral children to have a bath and let me wash their hair?

one tiny mince pie
2 satsumas.
leek
brocolli
carrots.
no excercise whatsoever (rebel)

TooT, are you around? I neeeeed you

at molly's snow. I miss snow.

I didn;t bother Moll

DS had a bath yesterday. He's very anxious about going back to school though.

He just says he misses me too much. It's been like this from when he started school, on and off, and last term was awful for several weeks (crying in playground in monring, then standing trying not to cry all whitefaced etc).

I don;t know how to help him with it

He is usually OK once he gets in the classroom I think and fine when he comes out, and usually seems to have enjoyed himself.

Any thoughts?

oh fk

Is he in reception?

I don't know what to suggest really. my ds1 hated school from the go-get. he is 12 and still does. He likes the social aspect though, just not formal learning. if it had been financially feasible to home ed him, I would have
Instead, we talked about what to expect in the day and that lunch time was halfway through. and the things he liked about school. and tried to focus on those.

and he still gets depressed every sunday

Oh FK & Moll

I know it won't really make you feel any better FK, but I've had several children who have been so upset and reluctant to come to school but as soon as they get in and sit down and start doing something they are ok. Poor poor DS though. When he talks about his day, has he enjoyed anything? Does he have friends there?

I told DS he was going back to nursery tomorrow and he said, 'Ohh, YAYYYYYY' so that's nice

Oh FK and Moll, that must be very difficult to deal with, well difficult for everyone involved really.

I bloody love goats cheese. Thanks for the pasta idea FK, Baby Lemur would like that to I think.

LOL at Buny's ds! At least he likes it there!

Orange
Peas
carrots
Spinach
Lentils
Tomatoes, onion
juice

About 7 [vast improvement]

banana
cucumber x2
apple
grapes
tomatoes
salad leaves
smoothie

A lovely walk with Baby Lemur, but it was flippin chilly.

tomatoes
leek
onion
peas
mango (non-c*ing )
apricots
banana
apple

and half an hour of davina. is butt achingly cold, no? AIBU to just sit under a blanket and munch carbs as really that is all i want to do right now...

for school trouble

oh i ate spinach too. and a bit of orange juice.

and in a minute possibly currants xmas cake

Happy New year veggers

WE have just done the back to Scjhool bath and hair wash. Ugh.

Yes, a mini meet up in the west is v good idea.

Lemur, our house has too much crap in now, it just needs to be eaten, v quickly I think.

Gnocchi bake, so cauli, broccoli, spincah and tomatoes.
Raisisn
Dried cherries/blueberries
Soup

have made huge vat of leek and potato soup for lunches this week.

have bought lots of pears and bananas and apples and grapes.
My intention is good

OMG SO much snow here this morning! 5 inches so far and rising.
Kids schools are both closed but dh is off today as the roads are closed to the town where he works.
Sadly I live within 5 minutes walk of my work...Grrrr

Flurries here today but no snow altough it is forecast. School is closed tomorrow but I have to go in anyway Is crap because I'd get loads of work done if I stayed at home but will have to spend over an hour travelling to go and do the same thing in a cold building with loads of distractions. Grrr

Enjoy the snow Moll.

Veg pie
Orange
Beans

I can't bear the suspense - we won't find out til 8am...ish whether schools are shut tomorrow or not, which is exactly the time ds1 needs to leave the house to catch his bus so we will haveto get up as suaul and do lunches and uniform etc .....and listen to terrible 1980s crap on out local radio station to find out.

where is our snow LR? where? where is it? i think molly stole it

carrot
spinach
courgette
raisins
apple

oh ffs is that all?

half hour of davina and hour marching round town.

i have a really bad stomach ache but i have the awful feeling it is just wind

i want snow. where's Toot? is she sledging do we think?

Yes, a morning listening to Heart Fm is not my idea of good times either Molly.

Mayor, did you have snow earlier? We had a bit but then it rained and sleeted and I slipped and fell . I am counting it as exercise.

oh hurrah

here you are

back soon x

it has snowed-ish earlier...but didn't settle even though everywhere is icerink-esque

nothing since before 3pm

am watching heairy bikers and getting cravings for steak and kidney pudding...

goats cheese is rank

you need a naice bit of stilton

we have a light covering of snow, more expected, but dd1's school prides itself on never closing... end of last term virtually every other school in the town closed bar dd1's

not much f&v

made quinoa stew thing tonight, was unmitigated disaster, is salvagable bot not tonight

made broccoli & cauli soup

v thick and filling,perfect for cold weather with huge chunks of bread and butter

yurty one, dd2 in 3-6 months or 6-9 depending on cut, she is 14-15lbs but chubby. i will pay you bach if it's fabulous

now would someone do me a favour? i started a thread about dd2's squawking, can someone do a search and post a link, for reasons i can't fathom i hid it